Things that makes me go YEAH!

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Things that makes me go YEAH!

It might be small, comparatively, but it might be the start of something bigger.

If we make it so – that is.

While agencies beyond the control of the majority of the world’s population get ready to close above our heads a global network of surveillance and control of our digital identities, setting up what will soon become a Frankenstein’s Monster also for those ostensibly its’ creators in the governments of the world, we are silly if we let ourselves be persuaded to look only at the small stuff of the FISA act and national elections.

It’s global, people, and unless you start acting accordingly you will wake up and find yourselves left to the mercy of powers who never cared about borders and nationalities.

But this was supposed to be about hope, and things that encourage it.

It seems that some people – sadly mainly those directly at risk – are trying their voices against the plans to spray their communities with chemicals they do not feel they have been sufficiently assured the safety of (there have been many other hearings and testimonies on this issue, and hopefully you can click yourselves on to them).

If you do not know what I am talking about, read this article.

You do not have to feel guilty, since the media mainly ignored it – presuming that nobody except those immediately affected will bother.

It is not as if people act as if they cared for their fellow citizens – much less for their fellow humans worldwide.

Sounds like pure inverted democracy to me, that the people who actually live in a community can not get to decide what the heck they will be getting on their skin, their food and in their lungs.

Second thing that makes me feel as if there might still be some live left in the increasingly threatened existence of social activists, are the protests following the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war.

I am delighted to see so many arrests, as that both tells me that those protesting are ready to take the consequences of their actions – more than what can be said about our political leaders – and that there will be additional pressure on the media to pick it up.

Peace protests might be possible to ignore, but the drama of national security threats posed by anti-governmental radical elements is another issue altogether.

Avoid violence at all costs, and take your punishment – it can not be done any other way at this point, I fear.

Occasionally you get to expose power abuse that way too.

A federal district court has ruled that the National Park Service violated the First Amendment rights of antiwar protesters when it excluded them from a major section of President Bush’s 2005 inaugural parade route. The decision came in a lawsuit brought by the ANSWER Coalition.